Critical Analysis

It has been a hard process to capture the whole image of Modernism. But analysing the works of artists like Piet Mondrian and El Lissitzky, I reach the point why Modernism came and how it changed the way to approach design. In the Russian Revolution, constructivism was an important movement to develop Modernism, it gave a hope to a better world. "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"by El Lissitzky is a call for that better world. First and Second World War did not stop people to do things differently, instead intensify the desire and the need to rebuilt, to reconstruct what wars had broken.Art and design was a part of that need. Piet Mondrian painting is clearly related with the change of something new that people needed. If we compare the traditional painting with this modern painting you will not find any similarities at all. And that was designers wanted. After going through all this research I realize that Modernism is the central development of Art and Design that prove that things can be different. It really worked out for that period but became outdated with the time. Rick Poynor explains why this happened.

'As It is always the case with any style there's a law, the more you see the more the public the more the designers uses those typography and graphic solutions the more familiar predictable and ultimately dull they become. And by the 70s especially in America you start to get a reaction against. What it seems to those designers is the conformity, the kind of dull blanket and sameness this way of design is imposing into the world. So it's Something that come out of idealism has by this time become meanly routine and there's a need for a change.' Helvetica (2007)

David Carson was one of those designers who started changing that modernist world, even If he did not know what he was doing.

'I was just experimenting. So when people start getting really upset I just don't understand why. And many years later somebody explain to me that there was this group, they spend a lot of time trying organize things, a kind of system going and they saw me coming and throwing that up the window. An only much later I learned what the term Modernism was.' Helvetica (2007)

There is people who think Modernism is boring and there is people who still live in that period somehow. In my opinion I think Modernism limits you with its strict rules, but at the same time you can find the basis of design in its ideas.